Percona is glad to announce the first Release Candidate release of Percona Server 5.6.11-60.3 on June 3rd, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

Based on MySQL 5.6.11, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.11-60.3 is the first RC release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can be found in the 5.6.11-60.3 milestone at Launchpad.

Percona Server has ported the Atomic write support for Fusion-io devices patch from MariaDB. This feature adds atomic write support for directFS filesystem on Fusion-io devices. This feature implementation is considered BETA quality.

Transaction objects are now allocated calling calloc() directly instead of using InnoDB heap allocation. This may improve write performance for high levels of concurrency. Bug fixed #1185686.

Under very rare circumstances, deleting a zero-size bitmap file at the right moment would make server stop with an I/O error if changed page tracking is enabled. Bug fixed #1184517.

Missing path separator between the directory and file name components in a bitmap file name could stop the server starting if the innodb_data_home_dir variable didn’t have the path separator at the end. Bug fixed #1181887.